Monthly Archives: September 2012

in America you may have the OBAMA phone but up here in CANADA EHHHHHHH we have Harper meds .. down there they use a phone to bribe you .. up here they just make sure your high and cant leave the house !

With the presidential election just weeks away, Pat McGuigan of CapitolBeatOK talks with New9′s Alex Cameron about the issues defining the battle between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama . Economic conditions establish the bottom line: 44 million Americans on food stamps, and 8.7 million on disability, $100 billion in value for business-related tax credits, and a $1 trillion annual increase in the national debt. There have been more months of unemployment during Barack Obama’s presidency than in all the months since 1948. Polls show the incumbent slightly ahead. "The stage is set for a very dramatic two months," McGuigan said. He believes issues such as government expansion into areas of religious liberty, illustrated in Hobby Lobby’s lawsuit against the president’s health care law will more impactful in October. McGuigan points to an analysis by Eric Boehm, a Pennsylvania journalist, observing, "At different times, we’re all one percent, or 47 percent" — paying taxes or not, benefitting from government programs, or not. Resolution of all these debates will decide the 2012 election. Turing to state politics, the veteran state capitol reporter points to issues that will move front and center as the 2013 legislative session nears: water, medicaid, tax cuts, veteran homes, education, capitol complex, pensions and more.

President Obama held a summit with America’s first family of pop culture Wednesday night as Jay-Z and Beyoncé raised $4 million for the president’s re-election cause with a $40000-a-head soiree at Jay Z’s 40/40 club in Manhattan. HOVA and POTUS exchanged fond words, with Obama jokingly pointing out that he and Jay "both have daughters. And our wives are more popular than we are … so we’ve got a little bond there." Beyoncé told the 100 or so guests that the couple "believe in [the president's] vision," before presumably telling the crowd "if you like it then you should put a lavish tax-deductible donation on it." Presidential DJ Adam 12 (yes, apparently the president has a go-to DJ), aka Adam Bravin of darkwave duo She Wants Revenge, spun for the evening and commented "I know that Jay-Z and Beyoncé had gotten some flak recently for not supporting their community. I think this just goes to show that they do support their community." Yes yes, Adam, but does the president prefer Chicago house or is he more of a UK drum and bass guy?

At an October 19, 1998 conference at Loyola University, Barack Obama spoke against "propaganda" that said government doesn’t work and the need to "pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution because I actually believe in redistribution."

Go behind the scenes and hear from Olympians and Paralympians as President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama host the 2012 United States Olympic and Paralympic teams at the White House. www.whitehouse.gov